Grubacic's ZSpace Friends
George, Justin | Australia
Hi, I live in Melbourne, Australia, and I think I first came across Znet courtesy of the linear notes of a Propagandhi album along time ago. Soon after that Michael Albert gave a talk at my university- University of Queensland- where I first encountered in any detail his proposals on Parecon, which opened my eyes to exciting and new possibilities for progressive change. I particularly related ...
Grubacic, Andrej | Serbia
Andrej Grubacic is a radical historian- or, more accurately, an anarchist historian- from the Balkans. Among his works are few books in Balkan languages, chapters and numerous articles related to the history and utopian present of the Balkans. His writings on anarchism, its past and future, are many, and could be found on ZNet. He used to be based in Belgrade, post-Yugoslavia, but after m...
Kelly, Brian | United States
Brian is socialist organizer, writer, and activist from New York. Brian's writings can be found on his website - Diary of a Walking Butterfly (www.walkingbutterfly.org). Contact e-mail: butterflywalking (AT) gmail.com.
Cronan Jr, John | United States
John Cronan Jr. is a restaurant worker of 11 years, organizer, and writer. He is a native of Providence, RI, but has lived in New York City for many years--where he has been involved in labor, student, and environmental organizing. Currently, John is an organizer for the Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York (ROC-NY), a membership based workers’ center ...
Spannos, Chris | United States
Chris Spannos has had over a decade of experience in self-managed media collectives and also as an activist, organizer, and anti-capitalist. From 1998-2006 he participated in the Redeye collective, heard on Vancouver Co-op radio. In September 2006 he joined Z as full-time staff focusing on ZNet and ZCom web operations. Other media work includes helping out with Z Video productions, being ...
Langstaff, David | United States
David Langstaff has attended the Z Media Institute in the past and is currently focusing on historical macro-sociology and critical development studies at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA. He can be reached at davidklangstaff@gmail.com
Isaacs, Joel | United States
Living in Berkeley in the 70s I was part of a Situationist inspired radical group who wanted to put subjectivity and community back into the revolution. Skip forward. I read Zmag for 20 years. Six years ago I was reading Chomsky's Understanding Power. One morning I woke up frightened. I thought: "All those wild ideas I have about what's really going on in the world - they're all true!"...
Morales, Gabriel | United States
let's talk about sex baby . . . . or, . . . the prefigurative politics zine. . . . i formatted chomsky's notes on anarchism. . . . united students against sweatshop's campus organizing manual. . . . i was also hoping someone wanted to talk about the organisational platform of the libertarian communists . . . and a history of anarcho-syndicalism from www.selfed.org.uk . . . or ...
Cat, Tolstoys | United States
Tolstoy's Cat is the pen name of a pacifist Anarchist and aspiring teacher who resides in the occupied nation of the U.S.A. She will remain anonymous, for now, to assure her freedom to write and do what she can to change the world.
Hill, Marcus | United States
I'm somewhere around 25yrs old--born and raised on the central coast of California. Finished a Masters degree in an unconvincing Public Health program in 2008, and am currently working on starting a non-profit focusing specifically on participatory community projects. My political history is more a reflection of life experience, so it's difficult to summarize. I attended Z Media Institute...
Herndon, Thomas | United States
I'm originally from Austin, TX, but moved to Olympia, WA to go to The Evergreen State College. There I studied quite a bit of political economy, foreign policy, critical race and gender studies, social movements and ethnography and organized a bit with different groups. I also attended ZMI 2007. After my stint at Evergreen, my finances were deeply in the red, and I had caught the I need t...
Adamovsky, Ezequiel | Argentina
Ezequiel Adamovsky, born in Buenos Aires in 1971, is a historian and anti-capitalist activist. He studied history at the University of Buenos Aires --where he also teaches-- and has a PhD from University College London. As an activist, he has been involved in the students movement and, more recently, in the neighbours Assemblies movement that emerged in the city of Buenos Aires after the rebel...
Albert, Michael | United States
Michael Albert is a founder and current member of the staff of Z Magazine as well as staff of Z Magazine`s web system: ZCom (www.zmag.org). Albert`s radicalization occurred during the 1960s. His political involvements, starting then and continuing to the present, have ranged from local, regional, and national organizing projects and campaigns to co-founding South End Press, Z Magazine, the Z Me...
